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Muckle v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “set forth the reasons why review of the trial court decision cannot adequately be obtained on appeal from any final adverse judgment in the trial court or by other available means.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “At this juncture, our focus is not on the merits of any ruling made by [a Superior] Court judge, but on the availability of other remedies.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.